It took me a very long week of tedious drawing and redrawing, measuring and fixing, etc. to make this bed, so in the end I decided there was no way I could write a full tutorial from the absolute beginning.  So I'm making it easier on myself and on you.  You are getting three templates to go with this tutorial.  The first one is the bed obviously.  All the layers are labled and where they should be on the layer palette.

There is now a second version of the bed template which is a vector layered template.  This makes it much easier to avoid jaggies.  To learn how to use a vector template, please click HERE: Vector Bed Directions.  So for all of you that want to avoid jaggies, please pick up the new Vector Bed Template  &  Vector Pillow Template  &  Vector Bedpost Template

The second template is for the bedpost.  No......that bedpost on the bed template is a merged layer image and is only there to show how and where they go.  The bedpost has 26 layers.  The last template will be for the pillow.  No......the finished pillows on the template are there for the same reason the bedposts are.  For those of you that like to tinker, feel free to take the templates apart and tinker with them for a different look.  The headboard can be changed so the top curved piece is another style to your liking.

So after you download the three (or 4) templates, here is what you need.  Choose the wood pattern you want to use.  Also choose the pattern for your comforter and pillows.  Open up the bed template and let's get started.  You can either turn off the bedpost layers and the pillow layers, or you can remove them.  If you do that, then save the template with a new psp file name.

Let's start with some of the easier pieces of the bed which just happen to be the wooden parts.  For my bed, I'm using wood03.jpg.  If you have been following through the furniture tutorials from the first one, the filing cabinet, you have the 5 wood patterns saved from that.  Click on the top Styles swatch and select the type as Pattern.  Now click on the Pattern image that comes up to get your Pattern window.  With the drop down menu, find the wood pattern you have open.  Size 100, Angle 0.  For the bed pieces the wood pattern needs to be horizontal.